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France's Macron Travels To St. Petersburg For Talks With Putin

8:17am May 25, 2018

by Lucian Kim

President Macron is trying his charm offensive with the Russian leader. Macron attends an economic conference in St Petersburg Friday that Putin uses to showcase Russia's development under his rule.

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Why A Europe-Wide Data Protection Law Matters To Others

6:28am May 25, 2018

David Greene talks to Helen Dixon, Ireland's Data Protection commissioner, about a Europe-wide law that takes effect Friday, which also affects Internet users in the U.S. and globally.

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Vienna Meeting Is A Last-Ditch Effort To Save Iran Nuclear Deal

5:06am May 25, 2018

by Peter Kenyon

British, Chinese, French, German and Russian officials are meeting with Iran's deputy foreign minister for the first time since the U.S. pulled out of the deal.

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New EU Data Protection Law Could Affect People Who Take Pictures With Their Phones

8:06pm May 24, 2018

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

The European Union's new data protection law is intended to strengthen privacy rights and stop abuses by social media giants. But the law also forbids people from posting anyone's picture online without their permission — and that includes tourist vacation photos.

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Thousands of abortion-rights opponents demonstrate in Dublin on March 10.

Ireland's Abortion Referendum Is Proving Deeply Divisive

6:49pm May 24, 2018

by Alice Fordham

Voters in Ireland will decide on Friday whether they want to repeal a constitutional amendment that protects "the right to life of the unborn."

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French President Macron's Planned Russia Visit Met With Skepticism

5:02pm May 24, 2018

by Lucian Kim

French President Emmanuel Macron will attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Friday making him one of few Western leaders to attend Vladimir Putin's annual event since the annexation of Crimea.

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Giuseppe Conte addresses the media after a meeting Wednesday with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the presidential palace in Rome. Mattarella approved the lawyer's nomination to serve as prime minister.

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Italy Finally Designates A Prime Minister, But Some Fear Future Political Storms

4:15pm May 24, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

After turbulent talks, the leading parties settled on Giuseppe Conte as premier. Still, between the wary partners in power and Conte's political inexperience, the turbulence may remain.

Biometric data is considered a special category requiring explicit consent under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation law, which goes into effect Friday.

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3 Things You Should Know About Europe's Sweeping New Data Privacy Law

11:37am May 24, 2018

by Aarti Shahani

The General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect Friday, but it also has implications in the U.S. Firms like Spotify and eBay now say you can ask them to delete data about you they've stored.

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Yulia Skripal speaks to a journalist on Wednesday in London following her March poisoning with a nerve agent in Salisbury along with her father, former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

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Yulia Skripal Says She And Father 'Lucky' To Survive Attack With Nerve Agent

11:10am May 24, 2018

by Scott Neuman

In her first appearance on camera since the March poisoning, Skripal said that she was concentrating on nursing her father back to health, but that she eventually hoped to return to Russia.

Head prosecutor Fred Westerbeke speaks next to a part of the Buk rocket that was fired on Flight MH17 during the news conference of the Joint Investigation Team in Bunnik, Netherlands, on Thursday.

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Missile That Downed MH17 Came From Russian Military, Investigators Say

9:51am May 24, 2018

by James Doubek

The Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing 298 people aboard. Russia has denied involvement.